Kingsville's Public Representation

I’m sure many want to know what happened at the hearing with the public complaints or grievances. I will tell my story, but I will start off with a recap of this year. It has been a joy to meet people in the community, hear stories of the history of Kingsville and KISD and listen to the concerns of the people. I thought I was alone. Not everyone had concerns. The ones that seem not to have a problem were the ones harassing me and threatening myself bodily harm. To clarify, I went into all of this with eyes wide shut. Not knowing a thing other than my own observations. I saw major issues that should be addressed, but quickly found out that this is Kingsville, TX. This is what Kingsville has always done, so why change it? The passiveness of the community was most certainly there. I truly believe that is not really what the community wants, but the community has been beat down and taught no matter what you do it won’t change the outcome. I sincerely do not believe that to be true. I believe if enough people say enough is enough and hold those accountable for their actions, change can occur.

I grew up in Durham, NC. I go there today and I do not recognize the place anymore. Change and progress hit my hometown hard and fast thanks to medicine and education. I am all about change and progress for the betterment of our future, but not that much. Kingsville is due for some tender care and subtle progress. In The Kingsville Record I was called, the “community activist.” I rather think of myself as the “community’s voice.”

There are so many issues I could have wrote about in my blogs, but I am not like certain board members. I keep those stories to myself because I wanted to treat that person’s voice with the respect they deserved. I also did not want those to be retaliated against in the process of being a voice. Problem is, there is nothing I can do for them. The stories they have told me are out right disgusting. If you really knew how vicious these people really are you would go vote. My blogs are absolutely nowhere near as malicious as the things they have done. Those that are reading this and they have affected you, you know what I am talking about. They treat certain people in this community a certain way. Get in the way of their agenda and you are screwed. You know there is nothing that can be done. They cannot do anything to me, so I went about the process myself to see how I would be treated. I could have hired an attorney, but chose not to. I wanted to see what they would do by doing this without an attorney.

Here is a recap of the blogs from the past year or more if anyone is new or forgot:

“Ice Cream Cell Phones”: Certain board members were lobbied to hire a different financial advisor for the district. As a candidate, I would like to bring forth that when board members ask for a topic to be put on the agenda for a discussion or a vote, they put their name on the agenda. It’s called transparency. You, the voter, should know who put those issues up for a vote. That ‘can’ has been kicked for far too long.

“The Mueller Report”: Whenever I got close to getting juicy or possibly damning information about board members, they put the public information requests off as long as they could. I have been constantly stonewalled by the district and their attorney, Maddox, with BS excuses.

“Security for Board Members, But Not Yo Kids”: They ask for security at board meetings, but don’t go out of their way to see about providing safety to our kids. The last time they got an officer of the law to go to a board meeting President Brandon Greenwood kicked one of their own out for causing a scene. Backfire! They care more about their safety than yours. They are untouchable and have immunity.

“Family Affair Part Dos”: More holding off my open records request. Found out they all took the same classes at board/school conventions and used them as free family vacations after they constantly complain about budget. Waste of money. All while near every vote that went before the board was not for the betterment of the kid’s overall education. More kicking the can, and they quite frequently admit it in open session.

“Communication Breakdown”: Had high hopes for the new superintendent, Elida Bera, as she enters the new school academic year. A hit list was given to the superintendent to can top level administration. This is about the time certain board members start harassing her. I already start to see the pre-planned attack to throw her off and get someone new. Remember, Corando Garza Sr. hired Carol Perez, the three advocated for Bera’s hire, and soon will vote for Adams as interim superintendent. How Corando could possibly win his seat again knowing the track record for his votes... The fact that he alone has been on the board for 16 years while KISD has disintegrated. He still looks like a deer in headlights when it comes to policy and how to run a district. I personally think he is a waste of space behind the dais, especially for someone with that much experience. Recently, the Kleberg Kenedy Country Junior Livestock Show voted Corando off by voting in another person for their board. Message has been sent.

“Wolves of KISD”: Overall bad behavior is spewing into the public. Corando called me a liar to a room full of teachers and other administration. I have an insider that told me all the things Corando and Prado talk about, most of it closed session information; in great detail I may add. They don’t dine there anymore so I lost that. Who is to say there isn’t more or it isn’t more ramped now that they talk about closed session elsewhere? They don’t care about what is legal and what is not. You can start to see my overall anger and how fed up I was on the behavior of a few that were in charge of a school district. There is a lot I know that I leave out of my blogs for privacy sake, it is sick.

“TMZ Kingsville”: I found out quickly that rumors are very accurate. Prado called a member of the community over the phone and yells and curses at that person. We have a child running a school district. Thing about Prado is when he gets mad, he does stupid stuff. I mean, you can’t make this stuff up! Then I get more information. This is about the time I’m threatened with bodily harm. I openly ask these people who are closely associated with the three on the board to provide the public with information that debunks mine. They cannot do it. They are pissed I am right and that I am exposing how horrible they treat others not in their circle. This is also about the time that Prado goes around and tells certain people in the community that Bera will be fired. It was told to me by many members of the community that the reason why Corando wins the board seat is because of mail in ballots and he caravans a certain population to the polls. I’ve even heard from several people that people VERY close to Corando walk into polling places and help these people fill out their ballot.

If the community is serious about change, they will get registered by Oct 5th and VOTE! Take back your school district! I’d love to represent you, but I cannot if I don’t get a seat. The many phone calls and long discussions prior to campaign are great, but nothing can be done about it without certain people on the board. You mean nothing, otherwise. They have their click of people they take care of and will continue to take care of. If you aren’t in that click there is nothing I can do for you.

“Quietest Bombs”: Bera openly admits that she was coerced into recommending Ms. Prado for a promotion. Prado went around already telling the community she would be hired prior to vote. Crites was obviously approached by Prado; I’ll discuss that later. To the people who come to me complaining about her using her board member husband as power, she will keep getting promoted and treat you that way if you vote for her husband. Prado did nothing to defend himself behind the dais that night. He got what he wanted.

“Who is Driving Garza Jr?”: In this blog I talk about the district putting off giving me information about Bera’s resolution.

“Grievance About a Grievance”: The grievance process is a joke. The only reason why Mr. Ortiz and Mrs. Ortiz’s grievance were heard so quickly is because I was putting pressure on these grievances I had to be heard. For other grievances, they took roughly 5 months. That may have something to do with the new superintendent. Either way it took a year for one of my grievances to be heard. The point in this blog was, HIRE A LAWYER. That way they will bend like bendy straws and give you what you want or deserve. Last thing KISD wants is a won lawsuit by a member of the public in open records. They will agree to most all of your terms in a “resolution.” A won lawsuit means they failed somewhere. I know of at least three resolutions that have been paid. Each one costs the district something.

“All Aboard SS KISD”: Those same three board members voted for Ms. Adams to be the interim superintendent. That was to buy them some time, obviously. They made her life miserable I’m sure. It was also getting closer to elections so they did some favors for the community. She was perfect to run the district then, why not now?

“You Spin Me Right Round”: KISD was still buying time so the public doesn’t know about Bera resolution.

“Nobody Puts Kingsville in a Corner”: They tried to mute me, and they tried to make Ms. Adams decide where. Pawning off their bad behavior onto her. They would have gone behind closed doors and harassed her until she chose to put me in the back. This is when I told the public about the name of the future superintendent. I said I had no ill will or personal issues with any board members. I should redact that and say I do because they weren’t doing anything to give the kids the best education they deserve. Maddox openly admits that the board can interpret their own board policy to the best of their interests at the time and way they want to interpret it. You have no hope. The board starts the stall tactic to hire the person they want for superintendent; Crites helps. KISD’s B rating is not really a B rating after all. Carol Perez, some board member’s pic for superintendent, helped with that. They are still stalling on Bera’s resolution.

“Beragate”: KISD paid off a superintendent to go away and to shut up. They gave away $88,500 plus benefits for her to do nothing and she was still employed by the district for 6 months. That open records request took 3 1/2 months to get when it should have taken 10 days. Bera was their most expensive mistake that they, the three, made. They lobbied for her to get hired, turned around and pushed her away and wanted it hush, hush.

“Family Affair Part Tres”: Corando approached Salinas to get his wife to run against Brandon Greenwood. Brandon Greenwood used to be close to the three. When he started questioning their bad decisions that did nothing but help them and not the district as a whole, that started pissing them off. They want him gone because he openly questions them at board meetings. Brandon is the only one publicly stating that nothing they have done in years is for the benefit for the kids because those three get in the way. Salinas has publicly endorsed Coradno Sr. this week. This is not the first time they have curated an opponent to get a seat on the board for their favor. It didn’t work last election season. If they all stay, with her vote, they can get everything they want all the time.

“Golden Rule”: Board members were announced as board members at a public meeting at Kleberg Elementary. They were using that time to campaign. Nicky Prado wouldn’t shake my hand but would shake all the other parent’s hands. That whole group and some of their friends act like petulant children.

“Flipitty Floppidy Indecisiveness”: Nearly nothing is natural or organic when it comes for a vote to the board. Cory wanted to do a full search and the board voted against it. They wanted to wait for the new board. Lies, more lies as usual. They wanted to wait until Dr. Cissy Perez could leave and come to KISD, so a full search would buy them time. They voted for Ms. Adams. Crites was right. If Ms. Adams was so bad like Prado said, why didn’t he put up for a vote to demote her? Zero transparency here.

“Credence Grievance”: Mr. Ortiz acts a fool in the paper because someone of the public put a grievance against his wife for her poor behavior in public at a board meeting. His wife later publicly starts acting a fool as well calling that parent racist. No wonder why teachers, administration and the public don’t file grievances on employees, they will also retaliate and those same board members will condone it. I mean, they do set the example. His wife also stated she would never vote for a white or black person on the board to other teachers in her presence. Brandon Greenwood pointed that out.

“The Board of Trustees Should Censure 2 Board Members”: Again, their behavior is stuff I cannot make up. The things I’ve told you about is public knowledge. Either they did it out in the open or enough people confirmed the information. The board should vote to tell them that this type of behavior doesn’t represent the district. I am pointing this behavior out because so many turn a blind eye. I have been told by several people that if I want my kid to get a better education, take them elsewhere. Then they say they will vote for Corando and Prado because they have done them favors in the past. They say this with shame that our school district can do better but straight up admit their loyalty towards them for personal reasons. I really hope they go to the polls and vote for what is best for KISD as a whole and not what is best for them personally. None of these people had kids that go to the district. Put that in your juice box. Administration and parents need to hit the polls hard. We need to be stronger and larger than the people who have zero interest in the district that vote by way of personal favors.

Hearing Agenda in September, 2020.

And now we are at the day of the hearing. On the agenda they condensed several of my grievances. I went back and forth with the district’s attorney’s office. Let me just say if I had a lawyer, they wouldn’t be communicating like this… They made sure I knew as little as possible. I asked for the hearing to be held in open session for the public to view. Maddox responded it was not up to me, but I put the district on notice that I had no problem letting the community know. When I went into the room, they said I had a total of 3 grievances. The email I received from the lawyer’s office stated I had 4. I personally, had a total of 6 since they finally gave me my open records. I asked how many grievances have been filled against board members. They already were downplaying my grievances from the get go by saying I had less than I did.

The hearing started at 3pm. My hearing started at 6:36pm. Noemi Ortiz took 1 hour and 20 minutes for her one grievance. Andre Ortiz had about an hour for his 2. Another employee of the district had about 30 plus minutes for his. Another person had a grievance and was emailed to be there at 3pm although that person was not on the agenda. That is funny. Lawyer can’t organize all their grievances. They need better organization skills. There was also a grievance filed on Prado and that person was not there for the hearing…….think about it.

Not once did the lawyer mention I had a public complaint. He addressed each one as a grievance. Another down play on the agenda was, calling my grievances public complaints. Either way, it doesn’t matter.

First grievance was about Prado and Corando using KISD resources to do a favor for the community. I explained myself and was interrupted several times by the lawyer asking stupid questions about the signage. “Did the signs have any indication of who did them? Sorry, bro, pretty obvious who did them when they were on Facebook and the news saying they were handing them out as board members. “What was on the face of the sign? Did it have any of the trustee’s names on it? But that was on their personal Facebook page?” I responded, "Some board members act as a board member under their personal Facebook page.” He asked, “But that isn’t a district asset? There wasn’t anything on the sign that indicated any political issue at all.” This was starting to irritate me. If I had a lawyer I wouldn’t be interrupted with stupid questions. I already knew where he was trying to go with this so I interrupted, “My only dispute is that the district was used to distribute the signs. I didn’t care what was on the signs, it could have Mickey Mouse of the cover of the sign, the point is they utilized district funds and time to pass out personal items.” His response, “Ok, I got it. Next grievance.” I knew I was right. What they did was against the law and I had enough evidence to prove this. Remember, KISD will never admit fault publicly.

It gets better. The next two grievances were a violation of first amendment rights. Remember when I said they would use their own board policy and make it whatever they want it to say or be at the time they need it to say or be? This is where they did that. Both Prado and Corando have personal Facebook pages. Corando had one set up because he is running against a much better opponent than times in the past. He has to step up his campaigning game in order to reach people. He only lets people he wants on his page. Nothing wrong with that, but completely unfair for those in the community that may want to hear his message. (He and Prado don’t have one, a message about why people should vote for them, so no need wasting your time to look.) “Once a Brahma, Always a Brahma” is the only literal message to the masses he has posted. I guarantee any other message he has written was someone else writing it for him. They do post in the capacity of a board member and communicate business of the district on their personal page. Only allowing who they want to see it. They delete comments they find to be not in their best interests.

The lawyer replies after I have made my argument, “You make an interesting argument in respect to president Trump. There are a number of things that distinguish itself from President Trump, and they are significant. One, is that that lawsuit has not succeeded. More importantly Mr. Prado is not the president. Mr. Prado doesn’t have a paid executive staff by the district. He has the first amendment right to publish or not publish. Mr. Prado is not an executive, he can only act under the express provision of the TEA code when he acts in conjunction with the other trustees. You are a trustee when you are in a board meeting. When you are not in a board meeting, you are a citizen. As a citizen he can do whatever he wants. It is a clever argument, but it doesn’t hold water.”

In so many words he stated that board members are only board members when they are behind the dais in a quorum (4 board members or more) and not when they aren’t. They are only a board member when there is a meeting of the board. No one could see under my mask, but I was smiling from ear to ear! I dare them to call themselves a board member outside of a board. They do it constantly. They get announced at schools and events as a board member all the time. They wear their board member clothing wherever they go in town just to remind people who they are and who holds all the power. I hope not one of them take credit for being a board member outside of a quorum of the board during a meeting! That is so funny. Crites double asks the lawyer to see if they are only a board member when they are in a board meeting. Then he says something along the lines of we can act like degenerates and it is completely ok? Yup.

I went onto the grievance about Corando Garza publicly insulting an employee of the district. The above sums up the rest of my grievances. Guess he isn’t a board member and can run around like a child calling employees names. Totally legit. This is really sad when you think about it. They can do and get away with any behavior they want. They have their first amendment right. They can use the 1st amendment to bully people. This is abuse of power to many. The attorney slipped right past that argument. This is a prime example of bullying. Using their power to abuse people.

There was another grievance that I filled against Prado for spreading rumors to the community about an employee of the district. In so many words he got involved in this person’s ventures looking for work elsewhere than the district. He tainted the job search. He admitted this to me in front of a subordinate and told several people in the public.

I have a pretty lengthy and damning recording of this. The lawyer and Coufal got involved and said that the person I am referring to can file a lawsuit against the district and sue the crap out of them. Abuse of power, privacy violations, TX labor laws, ethics violation, etc…. Yaklin and Brandon wanted to hear this recording. Crites left the meeting prior to this. I think he knew about this and so did Coufal because he was talking about this recording like he knew what was in it. This grievance was already tainted. Maddox stated there is no legal objection to hearing it, but it is highly personal and humiliating. Do I really need to go one explaining what else happened? When a KISD lawyer says this out loud, you know board members aren’t acting appropriately!! I don’t have the power to share it to the board members, but a board member has the right to tell EVERYONE he wants? Oh, the hypocrisy! Coufal went onto say, “We don’t have the power over any other board member. My concern is there could be a lawsuit that is coming at some point. This could muddy those waters because I don’t think that is relevant to the discussion because there is nothing we can do. There is no action that can be taken.”

The lawyer went onto say, “Unless authorized by the board a member of the board my not individually act on behalf of the board. The board of trustees may act only as a majority vote in present of a meeting.” Am I boring you yet? I love this stuff. It completely interests me. It apparently doesn’t interest most board members as most board members don’t have a clue about their own policies and laws and one of them has been there for 16 years and the other is married to top level admin. He then goes onto say, “The voters are the ones that can take action upon the board of trustee or a district judge.” Someone said in the room, “November 3rd!” You are damn right!

I explained to the board this, “You can censure Prado. You can do that! Whether he does whatever he wants to do after is another story. You can vote to have him censured. His behavior does not sit well as a board of trustees for the Kingsville Independent School District. Meaning, if you don’t believe that his actions and his behavior are up and coming of a school district of trustee, then you can say, I don’t like what you have done. Wow, that is tough. Or you could say, I don’t care what you’ve done and I’m not going to vote to censure, and just don’t vote to censure. Do you find his behavior acceptable? Do you find his actions acceptable? Then don’t censure him.”

Prado wanted to say a few words in his defense. I will quote this for those that don’t know the real Prado. “Let me say this in my defense. My behavior, ahh. I don’t think I’ve ever acted nonprofessional in the public. Because I don’t allow on my Facebook page, you will never be allowed on my Facebook page.” I replied, “I’m on it anyway.” He keeps blabblin (which I enjoy bc he sounds idiotic when he doesn’t have a preplanned speech prepared and usually says more than he ethically should.),“And so, if she considers that bad behavior that’s, that’s subject to interpretation in the end uhh you know I, I, she, you speak about behavior, its like calling, the pot calling the kettle black, her behavior and her acts.” Then they interrupt him, but he continues to say, “I’m going to say it.” I state, “I’m not a board of trustee. I’m just a regular citizen. I shouldn’t be held to the same standard as you.” He said, “I’m going to tell ya.” I state, “People aren’t scared of me like they are you.” Prado states, “I can tell you I’ve never been nonprofessional to her ahh to the public, in the public, ahh never been, never happen.” I asked him, “You have never threatened anybody? You have never threatened anyone who filed a grievance against you? I’d love to hear you say you have never threatened anybody.”

The crowd stopped him from talking. They knew he was starting to sound horrible. They knew I’d use his words against him. They didn’t want him to give me ammo to do so.

I go onto abuse of power against Nicky Prado. Crites recused himself earlier. Meaning he has personal knowledge of the accusation. I asked Brandon Greenwood if he was going to recuse himself too. He replied, “no” and stayed. We all know what this grievance is about. It is about Prado using his influence to get his wife hired. Bera would have never recommended her for the position. I reminded them of what happened in case they forgot. The lawyer started to talk about nepotism and I had to put a stop to that. I went into these hearings very small. I did not act like I would have acted if I weren’t trying to portray a member of the public who doesn’t know any better. I was allowing the lawyer to walk all over each one of my concerns on purpose. I know that if I had a lawyer that each one of these grievances would have received an hour of time just like Mrs. Ortiz got with her free representation that night. Each one of my grievances was lasting on average of 10 minutes. I was taller with him stating this is not a nepotism issue, but an abuse of power issue. Then I backed down realizing I am becoming too tall.

In the end whatever Prado said to Bera and to the other board members and also to the members of the public about the hire of his wife, he did it not as an active board member, meaning he wasn’t a board member when he coerced them to recommend her or vote for her because he wasn’t actively in an open board meeting of the public. The fact that he did not vote helped in his advantage. Crites recusing himself was a huge admittance that he was approached by Prado.

Someone! Hold tha door!

The most glorious thing happened out of this. Something that a certain candidate has been exclaiming from the beginning, is that it is the board’s job to do certain things for the district. One of those is hire a superintendent. That superintendent has the right to hire and fire whomever they want, without the consent or vote of a board! I will be damned! I knew about this, but FINALLY a KISD lawyer admits it in closed session. There are blatant reasons why Prado never wanted this in open session. For one it makes him look bad, secondly, the public will never have known the truth! If Bera was allowed to hire and fire whomever she wanted, Prado very well may have never got his wish. And the most embarrassing part is, the fiasco in hiring or firing those 6 upper level administrations, which the public got involved, would have never have happened to begin with. They didn’t know that they handed all the power over to the enemy they were blasting and harassing, Ms. Adams. She had all the power to make these decisions without the vote of the board. If only she knew. But, KISD has some really wakadoo legal representation. So much for working for the district. For all you administration and employees of the district, take a gander at this!

11.201

Sec. 11.201. SUPERINTENDENTS.

(d) The duties of the superintendent include:

(2) except as provided by Section 11.202, assuming administrative authority and responsibility for the assignment, supervision, and evaluation of all personnel of the district other than the superintendent;

The board’s only authority is the following pertaining to employment:

(c) Each board of trustees shall establish a policy designating specific positions of employment, or categories of positions based on considerations such as length of service, to which continuing contracts or term contracts apply.

“Assignment and reassignment belong to the superintendent and not the board. The board may adopt this as a curtesy” says the lawyer representing the hearing that night, not Maddox who represents them at every board meeting. Brandon Greenwood stated, “So we have been doing this wrong the whole time?” “The board approves the contract. The assignment belongs to the superintendent. Period” finished the lawyer.

All this hoopla in trying to get certain people jobs is not at the board’s discretion, but at the discretion of the only employee the district is supposed to vote to hire, the superintendent. Hot damn! Got to love the fact that state law supersedes KISD’s seriously old and illegal board policies!

Prado defended his wife and states, “In addition to that, Mr. Coufal. I had a conversation to Bera prior to the meeting.” Coufal interrupts and says, “that’s closed session.” Someone stated, “You can’t talk about that.” Brandon Greenwood stated, “You do that a lot.” Prado said, “Well, ok.”

Less than a paragraph into defending his wife he literally admits that he interfered by talking to Bera. I love this! Thanks, Prado! Finally hearing it from the horse’s mouth 12 months later.

When all was said and done, they trampled all over my grievances like I knew they would. The new superintendent got a glimpse into about 15% of the malicious and unethical behavior of certain board members. I hope she was taking notes that night. Now that she knows she has the power to make decisions without a board, she may face retaliation and coercion from board members that aren’t board members during times of any given day to do that to her. Maybe behind closed doors in the administration office. Maybe to her personal cell phone after working hours. She will for sure be told what to do and if she doesn’t, they will make her life hell! I made my point. This would have gone a completely different way if I hired representation. I left stating, "Thank you for your time. Took so long to get here. Took a year. Could have been done and over with 9 months ago. So sad. Night.” I had no chance of anything given the people I was complaining about were the ones hearing my complaint.

The board never refuted in the hearing that these board members acted inappropriately. Why didn’t the board members want the hearing in open session? They could have allowed it. If they didn’t have anything to hide, they would have held that hearing in public session. They can legally do that. Prado used his influence to change the course of the next year at KISD. When the board came back from closed session, Coufal stood up and said that there is nothing that the board can do to remedy any of the grievances. Crites voted no, most likely believing they could have a remedy for them and vote to censure one, if not more, board members for their actions. Way to go Crites!

The rest of the board condoned all their actions. They admitted that their behavior is acceptable at KISD. They set a very sad example for the staff and students at our district. These are the people you voted to represent you. Remember, they aren’t board members unless they are in a meeting and have a quorum.

And to Freddy. I haven't lost anything. You fail to understand this isn't about losing or winning. I went into that knowing nothing was going to be done. I won merely by proving what I knew would happen for the public to know. If I cost the district anything out of the normal, I'd gladly write a check because I CAN AFFORD IT! I don't need my husband to write that check. Again, this isn't about winning or losing. Many lose a battle but win the war. That isn't up to me either. We must be "oppressed" because we aren't besties with board members. Nice, thanks for saying that. I just want to point out that closed session information about my personal hearing has already gotten out to the public. Why on earth would he say, "Mickey Mouse," if I didn't use that as an example about the signage? This guy has private information about my closed session information, because you know, some members cannot keep their mouth's shut!

Another thing, Freddy, if you won, meaning your wife "won", I can only use my common sense, and put together the pieces that your wife's record was wiped clean. Here is the thing, Freddy, if that is the case I know something wasn't done right in the process. And the person who filed that grievance can now re-open that grievance against her. I am sure that person wouldn't mind writing a check to a lawyer for that as well. You call me weak, but I am not so stupid after-all...at least I know the difference between you, your, you are and you're. This is the crap I get from the board member's friends.

Corando Garza Sr. is not a KISD board member.

Steven Crites is not a KISD board member.

Brian Coufal is not a KISD board member.

Cory Garza Jr is not a KISD board member.

Nicky Prado is not a KISD board member and should return all his KISD board member gear.

Lynn Yaklin is not a KISD board member.

Brandon Greenwood is not a KISD board member.

All of you should treat them as such in the public. Whenever they come to your campus to butter you up or threaten you, tell them to kick rocks! Same for people in the public and businesses in the community.

The only time these people are members of KISD board of trustees is when this happens. And remember, you have no real voice during this time.